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Subject: FW: Proposed change in speed limit for Bonita Road
From: Steve Ferriot
Sent: Monday, ]une 06, 2016 4:06 PM
To: Mary Salas; Steve Miesen; Patricia Aguilar; Pamela Benwussan
Cc Tom Money
Subjed; Proposed change in speed limit for Bonita Road
Dear ciry officials:
I ���as shocked and dismayed to learn of the staff recommendation to increase the speed ]imit in the
.business district of Bo�lita.
I have lived and maintained my dental practice in Bonita since 1974. Over all of these years, as one
���ould expect, the traffic counts through the business district have increased many times over. A
large number of curb cuts exist on both sides of the road, giving ingress and e�ress to business and
residential traffic. Ofren times motorists must almost come to a complete stop eriting the road, due
to exiting traffic and/or the sharpness of the turn or steepness of the curb cut.
I routinely see pedestrians, some of�vhom are disabled and in �vheelchairs; some of whom are
youna students walkine or on bicycles, crossine Bonita Road at Allen School Lane and at Otay
Lakes Road.
Drivers entering the business district eastbound from [-80� approach the intersection of Bonita
Road and Willow Street at a high rate of speed; havine left a �0 mph zone. Invariably they seem
unaware that they are entering a hi�hly congested business district which requires them to slow to a
more reasonable 30-3� mph speed.
Knowins human nature and the insatiable desire to drive as fast as possible, motorists tend to drive
at �-]0 mph FASTER than the posted limit. 1 foresee a dramatic increase in potentially serious, and
possibly fatal; accidents should this increase in speed limit be approved. In my opinion, the speed
limit through the business district should be L0IVERED; perhaps to the 2�-30 mph limit currently
in existence in the 3rd Ave. business district of downtown Chula Vista.
PLEASE defeat this recommendation and introduce appropriate safeguards for all of our citizens
�vho travel Bonita Road.
Sincerely,
Steven H. Ferriot, D. D. S.
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